There are stories to these photos and I should be telling them. This was taken near the water's edge of a relatively unknown Chinese port city on the way to Hainan. The old woman in the bottom left of the photo is sorting through garbage for used wooden barbeque skewers with the slow persistence of aged and weary hands. I assume they will provide here sustenance for the day. She is pilling them up on the edge of the garbage, below the black garbage bag on top of the concrete blocks. You should be able to see them if you look carefully. She did not once visibly recognise our presence. Rare in a country where people will sit and watch you play cards for hours on day long train journeys because you are white.